Milltown

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Milltown, from 148 m² to 405,240 m² (40.52 ha, 100.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Milltown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Apr 2026Conditional

  Retention permission to Retain Sunroom to the side of existing dwelling as constructed with all associated ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660345

• 10 Mar 2022N/a

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. 16/1007 - a temporary (27 years) ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm to generate renewable electricity on a 12.02ha site, comprising solar arrays, associated electrical infrastructure, fencing, access improvements and ecologically beneficial landscape works

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 22265

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference 16/1007). Permission is also sought to amend the lifespan of the consented development from 27 years to 35 years. The development will consist of ground mounted solar panel photovoltaic (PV) farm to generate renewable electricity on a 12.02ha site, comprising solar arrays, associated electrical infrastructure, fencing, access improvements and ecologically beneficial landscape works at Moatstown Development Site, Milltown, Athy, Co. Kildare, ITM Grid Reference 665656, 696962, subject to 17 conditions. Amendments proposed are: No changes to red line boundary and no changes to perimeter fence or CCTV points; The height of the solar panels has been increased slightly from 2.3m to 2.5m, their angle span amended from 20-30 degrees to 10-40 degrees. Panels layout has been slightly reconfigured to account for the changes in the height. A slight increase in the overall land take from solar panels; Changes in land take for new access tracks from 3,500sqm to 1,890sqm; Temporary compound area to be moved 60m southwest, but will retain its overall size of 2,800sqm with slight alteration to its overall shape. Compound will be reinstated at the end of the construction phase; Energy Storage Area will be enlarged from 750sqm to 1,265sqm, an increase of 515sqm; Changes from four substations/energy storage containers and one grid connection point to two substations with larger areas of hardstanding and a grid connection point. The land take from the proposed changes is expected to change from 774sqm to 940sqm, an increase of 166sqm; overall decrease in ground disturbance/land take is expected to be approximately 929sqm.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19336

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

• 19 Jan 2017Refused

  a temporary (27 years) ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm to generate renewable electricity on a 10.6 hectares (ha) site (ITM Grid Reference E 665706 N 696477), comprising solar arrays, associated electrical infrastructure, fencing, access improvements and ecologically beneficial landscape works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1739

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD034-027 Ring-ditch
  Description

  One of a dense concentration of cropmarks of levelled monuments identified from several aerial photographic sources: Cambridge University Collection Aerial Photographs (CUCAP), Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), Dr. Gillian Barrett’s Aerial Survey and OSi Orthophotos (KD034-007----, KD034-008----, KD034-009----, KD034-010----, KD034-011----, KD034-0120001-, KD034-012002-, KD034-027----, KD034-034----, KD034-035----, KD034-036----, KD034-039----, KD034-040----, KD034-041----, KD035-015---- and KD035-080----). The majority occupy a roughly rectangular area (c. 650m E-W; c. 350m) in level tillage, with two ‘outliers’ (KD035-0120001- and KD035-012002-) c. 250m to the S, and a third ‘outlier’ (KD034-027----) c. 220m to the NW. KD034-027---- Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.24) shows the cropmark of a single ring-ditch with a central pit. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett and Gearóid Conroy Date of revision: 26 November 2013

• KD035-002 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a possible circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 30m) on the 1st ed. (1839) of the OS 6-inch map, on the W bank of the River Barrow. In 1985 it was noted that the feature appeared to have been covered by material dredged from the river, although traces of possible circular platform were visible, extending W from under the dredged material (SMR File). The area is now densely planted with ash trees and there is no obvious visible surface trace of the feature noted previously. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 27 November 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Milltown.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2351 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Milltown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Milltown · Baile an Mhuilinn

Area

1,848,139 m² (184.81 ha, 456.69 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrowford, Belview, Brownstown, Cardington, Cardington Demesne, Churchtown North, Courttown East, Moatstown, Srowland, Tyrrellstown

Placenames

Milltown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.